[Nut-upsdev] Patch for drivers.list

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/7/29 Svein Skogen (listmail account) <svein-listmail at stillbilde.net>

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> Charles Lepple wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote:
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> >> On a sidenote, I had a really hard time getting the usbhid-ups driver
> >> working in FreeBSD running as a non-privileged user (even with
> >> permissions on the /dev/ file set properly). Running it as root works,
> >> though, so no biggie (I have the luxury of having the ups connected to a
> >> dedicated box that is sufficiently fenced off from the rest of the
> >> network).
> >
> > I don't have my FreeBSD box handy, but I seem to remember having to set
> > permissions on both the bus (for libusb to enumerate the devices) and on
> > the device's /dev node itself.
>
> That I didn't try. I'll try it later (right now the weather here is too
> unstable for me to consider messing with the UPS setup just when I might
> need it). Thanks for the tip. (If this works, maybe it should be added
> to some documentation?)
>

sure, and even more knowing that we're working on the new shiny doc.
I'm also keen in automating the process, if possible, as for udev on Linux.

any hints / feedback is welcome since I'm not a *BSD user (simply due to a
lack of time, not of interest!)

cheers,
Arnaud
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